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SHIRT SLEEVE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4 ISIS.

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T @FFME WILLIAM Il?. ROWAN, OF LOUIS, MISSOURI, .ASSIGNOR TO ELDERMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, 'MISSOURL A CORPORATION OFMISSOURI.

SHIRT-SLEEVE.

To all wiz-om t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. RowAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Shirt-Sleeves, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part thereof. n

This invention relates generally to shirts and, more particularly, to acertain new and useful improvement in shirt-sleeves.

With shirt-sleeves as now generally made or manufactured, so far as I amaware, the arm or wrist of the wearer is more or less exposed at theplacket of the sleeve. In inclement or cold weather, and especially withwork shirts golf shirts, and the like, such exposure is disagreeable andobnoxious. The want of a shirt readily put on and having means forcovering and protecting the arm of the wearer at the placket of thesleeve has hence been greatly felt. The object of my present inventionis to provide a shirt which may be readily and easily put on and inwhich the sleeves are formed with means adapted to cover and protectfrom exposure the arm or wrist of the wearer at the otherwise openplackets of the sleeves.

With this object in viewz my present invention resides in the provisionof a shirt having a sleeve provided or formed with a flexible extensionor flap on either the under or over-facing of the placket, the extensionor flap being adapted and designed to project across the placketopeningand thereby cover and protect from exposure the arm or wrist of thewearer at the placket of the sleeve, and in certain novel features ofform, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as willhereinafter be described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shirtsleeve embodying my inventionin preferred form' Fig'. 2 is a front view of the sleeve with its culiopen;

Fig. 3 is an inside elevation of the sleeve torn apart;

Fig. 4 is a similar view, illustrating, however, the flap or extensionin placket-closing position;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view, looking down into the sleeve;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

Application 1ed December 4, 1916. Serial No. 135,018.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a shirtsleeve embodying my invention ina slightly modified form; and

Fig. 7 is a front view of the sleeve shown in Fig. 6, with its cuffopen.

Referring to the said drawings, in which like reference characters referto like parts throughout the Several views, the sleeve proper may lbe ofany usual or approved construction, the sleeve proper including a mainportion 1, a cufl 2, and a placket for convenience in putting the shirton, the placket having an under placket-piece or facing 3 and an upperplacket-piece or facing 4:. i Formed preferably continuous with theplacket under-facing 3 and projecting lengthwise laterally of thesleeve, is a flexible extension or flap 5. This flap 5 has a widthpreferably approximately equal to the length of the placket, extendingfrom the inner edge of the cuff 2 to the crotch 6 of the placket, and isof such length relatively to the diameter of the sleeve that its freeend 5a will project, when the placket and cuff are closed, as by meansof the engagement of the button-hole 7 with one or the other of thebuttons 8, well around within the sleeve, as shown particularly in Fig.5. Thus the flap 5, extending across the placket-opening is adapted toform a cover-member for the otherwise open placket of the Sleeve and toprotect from exposure the arm or wrist of the wearer at thesleeve-placket, the Hap 5, the shirt being upon a wearer, projectingaround within and crosswise of the sleeve withV its outer facethroughout closely up against the Ainner face of the sleeve.

In the modified form of my invention illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, theplacket cover-member or iap 5 is continuous with the upperplacket-facing 4 instead of with the under placket-facing as in thepreferred form of my invention illustrated in Figs. l to 5, inclusive,the iap or extension 5 extending exteriorly, instead of interiorly, aswith flap 5, laterally of the sleeve and across the placket. In thisform of my invention, also, I preferably provide the flap 5 andsleeveportion 1 with coperating fastening-members, as, for instance, thebutton-hole 9 and button 10, for detachably holding the flap 5 inplacket closing-position when the shirt is upon a wearer.

My invention is simple, increases but little the cost of manufacture ofthe shirt, adds considerably, especially with Work-shirts and the like,to the` attractiveness and usefulness of the shirt, and, as I have fromexperience found, efficiently accomplishes the object mentioned.

I am aware that minor changes in the form, construction, arrangement,and combination of the several parts of my new shirtsleeve may be madeand substituted for those herein shown and described Withoutdeparting'froni the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is: i

l, As a new article of manufacture, a shirt-sleeve having a longitudinalplacket and a cuff open continuous With the placket, coperatingfastening-members on the cuit for detachably fastening the sameadjustably in closed position, and a single flexible ap projecting fromone edge only of the sleeve at its placket, said iiap being adapted toextend laterally of the sleeve and across the placket-opening andprovide a closingmember for the Aplacket-opening When the cuff isineither of its adjusted closed positions.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a shirt-sleeve having a longitudinalplacket and a cuff open continuous with the lacket, cooperatingfastening-members on t e cuff for detachably fastening the sameadjustably in closed position, and a single flexible iiap projectingfrom the under-facing only of the sleeve-placket, said flap beingadapted to extend around Within the sleeve and across theplacket-opening and provide a closingmember for the placket-opening Whenthe cuff is in either of its adjusted closed positions.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

WILLIAM P. ROWAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing'the Commissioner of Tatents,

Washington, C.

